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"Fonzie" comes to the rescue of "Joanie"

Mark_Giardina said:
...nothing has been mentioned about Ron Howard, her TV brother, extending his influence to help Moran. Poses an interesting question: Why not?
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Perhaps dear Opie, as a profiting and progressive part of the one percent, believes that all he needs to do is pay his higher taxes to that "nice Mr. Obama" and let the feds take care of the feeding and mental health care of his long lost Happy Days Sis. It's remains so conveniently hands off in that way.
 
Lamont Lester said:
Mark_Giardina said:
...nothing has been mentioned about Ron Howard, her TV brother, extending his influence to help Moran. Poses an interesting question: Why not?
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Perhaps dear Opie, as a profiting and progressive part of the one percent, believes that all he needs to do is pay his higher taxes to that "nice Mr. Obama" and let the feds take care of the feeding and mental health care of his long lost Happy Days Sis. It's remains so conveniently hands off in that way.
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That was really uncalled for. Besides, Henry Winkler is the left-wing politico of the bunch. I applaud him for putting his money where his mouth is; I only hope it works.

What's sad is to read where her lawyer was quoted as saying, "There’s no indication anything was wrong with her." I'm sure he means other than the fact that a 50-something woman was just kicked out of her parents' trailer for partying too hard, when she should have been able to take care of her parents with the earnings and royalties from her fame.
 
I won't judge her other than to say she looks rough. I have often wondered how any child star copes with the fact that their best days are in the past. I have enjoyed her on "Happy Days" so I hope she can pull things together. It's nice Mr Winkler was willing to lend a helping hand to a former colleague.
 
Judgment is so easy.

I won't lay blame, often those who reach this situation have estranged those who could or would help.

It cannot be dismissed that as a public person, she became a role model, and now serves as an example of
how any of us can fall for various reasons, and why we must try to help. Anyone, not just some specific TV actress.

It's wonderful that Henry Winkler is trying to help. As with any other help, the receipt must be able to see the value.
If there's no value to the recipient (in help), then we can attempt to fathom what we don't know,
but must accept that a person has decided on a crash course, in the way of a very bad example.
 
Heaven forbid we judge!

In that case, we should remove the locks from the doors of our house because we are "judging" those on the outside to be bad guys!
 
For all anyone knows, Ron Howard has helped or offered to help Erin Moran. If he has, great. If he hasn't, maybe he has his reasons. We... don't... know! It's easy to flame a guy for not helping, but it might be nice to know, um, y'know...some FACTS before assuming anything.
 
Not that it happens to all child actors, but a large number of them, especially the younger ones, are in many cases pampered by either producers, parents and the "hangers-on" until these young actors grow up and are no longer a 'meal ticket' then they are tossed aside like a wrapper from a McDonald's happy meal. This scenario may have happened to Erin Moran.

Yet, from articles that I've read she apparently had other issues to deal with. For instance, Moran kept her distance from anyone associated with "Happy Days" for many years.

Someone mentioned Ron Howard. Perhaps Howard and Moran didn't get along during the series. Or he doesn't feel any obligation to help her out of her current situation. On the flip side he might have been helping her secretly for years and no body knows about it.

Personally this whole story is nothing but a typical Hollywood occurance. I mean how many actors have fallen on hard times, mostly because of bad management, or personal self-destruction?
 
And in the music world, too. I recently attended a great concert by "The Family Stone." (Remember the early 70s hits Everyday People, and Hot Fun in the Summertime? Needless to say, the leader of the group, "Sly" (Sylvester Stewart) was not on stage that day, and hasn't been for years. As far back as the early 70s, he was notorious for his heavy drinking, drug use, and unreliability - often too stoned to go on stage.

I did a little research after that concert, and learned that Sly lives in a beat up old motor home in a bad part of Los Angeles. People there who care about him make sure he buys food, eats and cleans himself.

A sad story, and not an atypical one.
 
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